“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.”– Gian Carlo Menotti Related Quotes “Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”– Samuel Butler “After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism”— Niall Ferguson “The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I have walked this earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude would like to leave some memento in the form of drawings and paintings—not made to please this school or that, but to express a genuine human feeling.”— Vincent van Gogh